Northrop Frye Quotes
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
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I find that life is easier when it is just a blurWith no details to confuse who or what or where I wasSo when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
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I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.
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I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.
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The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.
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We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it's to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.
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While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
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We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kaput forever and ever. As sure as we will no longer discuss whether Lindsey Graham or George Pataki can be president.
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The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
